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Angry, local residents clear a site in Saint-Josse: “It feels like a ghetto”

Local residents want their neighborhood to become clean and calm again.

Gloves, a broom and trash bags: about twenty residents of the North district, in Saint-Josse, met this Saturday for the major cleaning … of a site. The latter has been blocking traffic in part of the neighborhood for several months.
“The work began in September 2019. Vivaqua finished its work at the beginning of December and the municipality had promised us that everything would be finished for the end of year celebrations but nothing has changed since”, explains Roland, a local resident.

The intersection of rue Linné and rue de la Prairie is therefore still closed to traffic, causing many embarrassments. “Cars are forced to make big detours and the work is not always well indicated so some vehicles have to start in reverse. This also poses a problem for the police and firefighters, who can no longer

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